More than 1,200 school pupils from across South Yorkshire competed in the School Games summer festival finals on Wednesday the 5th of July.

The South Yorkshire School Games summer festival took place across four venues, with an Olympic style opening ceremony taking place at Abbeydale Sports Club.

Great Britains very own former Olympian and 200m runner, Emily Freeman and England’s Strongest Man 2017, Phil Roberts attended the games to further promote sport and encourage the pupils participating to persevere and more importantly, have fun!

The Education Network, along with the Yorkshire Sport Foundation, sponsored and attended the finals which were held at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield Hallam University City Athletics Club, and Whirlowbrook Hall.

The Education Network put together refreshment packs for all the primary and secondary schools attending and our anti-bullying mascot, Buddy even got involved, taking part in hockey, hula hooping, a conga line, tag rugby, tennis and more on the day.

Buddy was even at hand to support all the pupils and wish them good luck before the events.

Pupils competed in nine different sports, with Sheffield the most successful district, winning 17 gold, 14 silver and seven bronze medals. Doncaster and Rotherham schools both won two golds, two silver and five bronze medals each. Barnsley schools won seven medals – three silver and four bronze.

Sports included tennis, cricket, athletics, golf, tag rugby, hockey, orienteering, netball and an adventure challenge with the event supported by a team of more than 30 volunteers.

The School Games is a unique opportunity to motivate and inspire millions of young people across the country to take part in more competitive school sport.

The Education Network is a proud sponsor of the South Yorkshire School Games 2017 summer festival and will continue to support School Games and similar events as part of an ongoing commitment to support healthy living and fitness for all children of a school age.

The Education Network took part in yet another successful school games this month but this time, the event was in Yorkshire!

The games were held on Monday 20th June at the University of York.

Primary schools attended the games from across the North Yorkshire area.

The schools that took part hold various different qualifying heats for each athletic discipline and as a result, will take part in a huge tournament at the end of the year.

The Education Network sponsor a number of School Games across the country. The games in each area run the same but are sponsored by different offices.

The School Games is a unique opportunity to motivate and inspire millions of young people across the country to take part in more competitive school sport.

As sponsors we provide donations to fund help fund the games. We provide prizes for competitions which promote the cultural element of the games, we give goodies out to children throughout the event and we volunteer our services on the day, including the option of having our anti-bullying Panda mascot, ‘Buddy’ present.

The Education Networkalso provide water and energy bars for the young athletes participating to keep their sports nutrition in check!

We received some amazing feedback following the day and we’d like to thank all who got involved and attended.

We look forward to our continued sponsorship of all the School Games we’re involved in this year, in particular the South and West Yorkshire games which are taking part on Friday 1st and Tuesday 5th July 2016.

They provide benefits to all children and young people by developing, delivering, commissioning and evaluating a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

The opportunities provided for schools, supports all members and partners in raising aspirations and standards to create better outcomes for all.

The PLP is proud to have over 80 school members from three local authorities – Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

Over 24,000 learners and 700 teachers are in schools in their partnership and school members benefit from being linked through to local, regional, national and international organisations.

This helps our members by adding value to their offer, supporting them in the school improvement journey and improving life chances for learners.

Diane Cox, Managing Director of The Education Network over the East Midlands (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire) and East Anglia (Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Norfolk) joined the partnership in 2014 as a Voluntary Board member.

The Education Network is proud to be working in unison with the PLP to support the local community.

For further information regarding the partnership or if you’d like to be involved in something similar in one of the above areas, please contact:

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